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TY - GEN ID - cogprints2407 UR - http://cogprints.org/2407/ A1 - Wallace, Dr. Rodrick A1 - Wallace, Dr. Deborah A1 - Wallace, Dr. Robert TI - Culture and Cancer Y1 - 2002/08// N2 - Genetic mechanisms, since they broadly involve information transmission, should be translatable into information dynamics formalism. From this perspective we reconsider the adaptive mutator, one possible means of 'second order selection' by which a highly structured 'language' of environment and development writes itself onto the variation upon which evolutionary selection and tumorigenesis operate. Our approach uses recent results in the spirit of the Large Deviations Program of applied probability that permit transfer of phase transition approaches from statistical mechanics to information theory, generating evolutionary and developmental punctuation in what we claim to be a highly natural manner. AV - public KW - Cancer KW - cellular cognition KW - culture KW - evolution KW - information theory KW - interpenetration KW - mutator KW - punctuation KW - renormalization KW - second order selection KW - universality ER -